Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-23
THE GAZETTE FORT WORTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER %

WOulu make you EnlnK tue morse was
coming right on the stage. For an sp-
proschIpg carriage march pole on the
floor sgainst the grsin OF the
wood so that it jumps. That
represents the rumbllng; and
for the cracking OF the whip we use sma
torpedoes, until the coschman dashes on
the stage whip in hand. a neat effect is
making ship tack; the snip is simply
made in three pieces, so that they pass
each other, but they give the desired
effect. In the sinking OF the ship the
boat simply goes below the set water. In
q raft sce1e ct sea the logs ere
set in s rocker worked by supers IN
der the stage. The new rats are made
with the bottom the shape of bowl. The
motion OF the water is made by the supers
shaking it.
SIN fire scene on the stage for touch
ing it OFF we throw sulphuric acid on q
preparation of potash and pulverized
sugar, and that saves touching it off as
they used to have to do, and makes sure
job it. Sometimes the insurance peo-
pie kick, but when we eXplsin it TO them
that we have damp cloths to smother it,
they do not make any further obj lection.
Ice cakes are made with soap boxes on
rockers. The spIashing OF the water is
made by throwing up salt filed with
spangles. We used this effect in the
Lights o. London where the fellow goes
c IF the bridge, and we employed the
same fake in the scene of Washing
ton crossing the Delaware. Stage eleVa-
tors are worked simply with counter
weights, and are easy to make. Thunder
is made nowadays by beating dried cow
skin as you would base drum, and the
lightning fash which precedes it comes
from throwing spray OF lycopodium out
of g can SO that it comes in contact with
a sponge flied with alcohol on fire. The
whirlpool used in THE Breadwinners'
cost $500. 1t was made of wood, with
stands OF rocks, forests and mountains
around it. 1t was in the
shape of bowl on the bot
tom, and was turned rapidly from
belo W, with water painted on the sur
face. One section was made of tissue
paper, with chalk marks on to make it
look like the rest. It was through this
section that the heavy william threw the
heroine. l fixed tree on the principle
of an old oaken bucket sweep, and when
the rescuer jumped he csught this tree,
which went down to the waters edge
when he rescued the woman and then
bobbed up. One night, when the actor
was drunk, he made bad jump and got
lump on his head by striking the wood.
Every night before the scene he made me
do the jump to prove that it was safe.
"The theater property man Is thing
Of the past, for you can't ind one who
knows anything. In the old times If you
wanted Louis XIV chair he WAS sup
posed to know where to get it or how to
make it; but now he don't even know
what it is like. We all do our own paper
work now, and can make baked turkey
or bouquet as easy as I can fire drunk
en- super. We model with clay, plaster
Of paris and paper, and any one who is at
ell handy can do it after once knowing
how. In New Orleans made big hit
with tropical scene out Of q hundred
palmleaf fans, a few green grape barrels,
quire Of white pasteDoaTd,
and 8 qusrt of green and yellow
paints. The Kiralfys had a regular
modelling shop, in charge of which
was an srtist from Paris. He fixed the
rig by which the north wind knocked the
fisherman into the sea, and that by which
the diver went down and brought him up.
You could see the bottom of the ocean,
fish and sill, as natural as life. Another
trick is the illusion paint, used by Her
mann in his performances where dark
scenes are to be given. The bapjo play
ing is done in that way. The secret of
the thing is to charge the paint with mag
nesium. Only q few know that, and
NAV get myself into scrape by giving it
away. The woman who floats in the air
is kept up by back support from behind
the black curtain they use"